Joey Wong

Name: Joey Wong
Date of Birth: January 31, 1967
Place of Birth: Taipei

Mini-bio: Joey Wong (also known as Joey Wong Cho-yin), Joey Wang Zu Xian (Mandarin), Joey Wang Tsu Hsien (Taiwanese), Joey Ong Jyo Han or Hen (Fukien) and Joey Wang) is a Taiwanese actress.Wong was born and rai...( read more)

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Joey Wong mini-bio: Joey Wong (also known as Joey Wong Cho-yin), Joey Wang Zu Xian (Mandarin), Joey Wang Tsu Hsien (Taiwanese), Joey Ong Jyo Han or Hen (Fukien) and Joey Wang) is a Taiwanese actress. Wong was born and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School.

Her father is a basketball player and he encouraged her to become a professional basketball player when she was fourteen. Shortly thereafter she shot a TV commercial for sport shoes which drew the attention of a film producer whom made her the leading lady of film It’ll Be Very Cold by the Lakeside This Year. This movie attracted the attention of producer Mona Fong of Shaw Brothers and she invited Wong come to Hong Kong to make her first Hong Kong movie Let’s Make Laugh II, opposite Derek Yee Tung Sing. In 1987, she portrayed a beautiful ghost in A Chinese Ghost Story and her beauty and grace made her a film idol in Japan and South Korea. She made a dozen movies in the following years playing similar characters, either ghost or vixen, gliding across the screen.

In 1992 she made her singing debut with the Japanese and Mandarin CD single, "Hold You In My Arms Forever". Wong expressed a desire to retire from film making in 1994 and stayed away from the limelight until 1997 when she returned to the silver screen in the Japanese movie Peking Gejin (Peking Man) and released the companion CD single "Who Are You?". In 1998 she released the extended Japanese CD Angelus and her first and only full CD, in Mandarin, Isolation aka Isolated From The World. She returned to semi-retirement after the release of Isolation, but returned once again to films in 2001 with Peony Pavillion, then once again announced her retirement.

In 2004 she appeared in Beautiful Shanghai aka Shanghai Story and reportedly appeared in a Taiwanese TV series with on again, off again beau Chyi Chin. In September 2005, coinciding with the world-wide release of Beautiful Shanghai (Shanghai Story), she once again announced her formal retirement. It's reported that she currently resides in Vancouver, Canada and is studying English.